Emily Swift-Jones

Sculptural Gilding Artist using gold leaf, verre eglomise, polished plaster to create textured and patinated surfaces and sculptures. Themes come from the natural world especially inspired by crystaline formation and geological formations.

Thursday, 24 May 2012

Trying things out

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I was doing some samples for my day job and came up with this. I think I'm going to have to make another to replace it now because I ...

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New commission

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Through my blogspot and Pinterest page I met the lovely and extremely talented Jenni Hampshire. The designer and creator of fabulously elab...

Monday, 21 May 2012

New website for the new me

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I have been beavering away in my attic to create a new website. I think the new one represents me a lot better with a portfolio of my work ...

Thursday, 26 April 2012

splashback

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The first verre eglomise splashback I did using a mixture of gold, lemon gold, white gold and palladium leaf!

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A wee bit of verre eglomise for the splashback of a clients guest wc - making the most of a small space! My client loved the contemporary...

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A verre eglomise mosaic backsplash I installed in my kitchen. It gave me an opportunity to play with a few techniques.

Recent verre eglomise commission

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This is a recent commission which I completed for a London client. The client actually prefered the back of the glass to the fron...

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Emily Swift-Jones: My artwork has evolved from my career as a specialist decorator. I use traditional gilding techniques, italian plaster, texture mediums, glass, semi precious stones and baroque pearls. I find my inspiration in geology, chemical reactions and in the beauty of decaying materials such as rust

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